hortatory

• It was still hortatory, but it promised forgiveness – like Aunt Bronwen when she had finished her sermon and the toffee came out of her pocket. —  The Key - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 08
• I wonder if we would not do better to retire this frenetic, hortatory, losing campaign around a slogan, and focus more on the existing treaties that accomplish much the same thing, by which states are bound and regularly reviewed for compliance. —  open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
• At first Mrs. Greyne contented herself with daily letters, but latterly she had resorted to wires, explanatory, condemnatory, hortatory, and even comminatory. —  The Mission Of Mr. Eustace Greyne 1905
• And this doctrine is conveyed, not by positive, hortatory, or didactic methods, but by Criticism--the calm praise of what commends itself to his judgment, the gentle but decisive rebuke of whatever offends or darkens or misleads. —  Matthew Arnold
• It is probable that in many cases the two causes would together CHAPTER V THAT THE CHRISTIAN MIRACLES ARE NOT RECITED, OR APPEALED TO, BY EARLY CHRISTIAN WRITERS THEMSELVES SO FULLY OR FREQUENTLY AS MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPECTED I shall consider this objection, first, as it applies to the letters of the apostles preserved in the New Testament; and secondly, as it applies to the remaining writings of other early Christians The epistles of the apostles are either hortatory or argumentative. —  Evidence of Christianity

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